]30 WHITE-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



The next bird begins to assume more of the plum- 

 age of T. hirsutus : it is the 



WH1TE-T AILED HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus leucurus LINNAEUS. 



Trochilus leucurus, Linnceus Colibri a collier rouge, Euf. 

 fon. White-tailed Humming- Bird, Latham, General His- 

 tory, iv. 308. Edwards, pi. cclvi Le colibri ruficol, pi. 



xxii. 



THIS species is nearly similar to the preceding 

 birds in size, but it is of a narrower or more slender 

 make. The upper parts are of a golden-green ; a 

 stripe of reddish-brown passes from the eye above 

 the auriculars, and another line of white from the 

 rictus below them. The chin is blackish-grey, and 

 immediately succeeding is a patch or collar of chest- 

 nut-red, without reflections ; from thence the green 

 of the upper parts spreads itself upon the breast, in 

 the form of a broad band. The belly and vent are 

 of a reddish-grey ; the under tail-coverts green, bor- 

 dered with a fringe of white. The centre tail-fea- 

 thers are golden green, those on the outside greyish- 

 white, each diagonally tipped with black. The plu- 

 mage of the female and young do not seem to be 

 known. It inhabits Dutch Guiana, and has been 

 brought from Surinam. The next very splendid spe- 

 cies which we have to introduce, though agreeing in 



